Saphier, director of breast imaging at a New Jersey branch of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, would bring an extensive medical and wellness background to the role.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday withdrew Casey Means’s nomination for surgeon general. The announcement came after nearly 11 months of Senate inaction on the nomination, as Senate health committee members Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AL) would not say whether they would vote for her. On Truth Social, Trump blamed Cassidy for having “stood in the way,” of Means’s nomination, calling him a “very disloyal person.” In a separate post on Truth Social, Trump said that he would nominate Nicole Saphier, a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and longtime Fox News medical contributor, to serve as the nation’s chief doctor. Secretary of Health and Human…Open
Dr. Nicole Saphier, a renowned radiologist and Fox News contributor, has been nominated by President Trump to replace Casey Means as the U.S. surgeon general after Senate delays stalled the prior nomination.
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: President Trump announced the nomination of Dr. Nicole Saphier as U.S. surgeon general, replacing Casey Means, whose nomination has been stalled in the Senate. The president made the announcement on Truth Social, citing delays caused by Senator Bill Cassidy. Cassidy has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Big Pharma firms and executives in recent years. DETAIL: Dr. Saphier, the replacement pick, is a radiologist and director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Monmouth, as well as a Fox News contributor and podcast host. President Trump praised her for her expertise in cancer detection and treatment, as well as her ability to communicate complex…Open
Dr. Means’s nomination had stalled in part over her views on vaccines. The president said he was instead nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier, a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.